Re: [arch-general] GDM/Lightdm and/or Gnome will not start

2017-11-26 Thread Alan E. Davis via arch-general
Thank you for the tips. I am able to run either i3 or xfce4 through startx. Not gnome. GDM will not work. I have made another account. I cannot start GDM as root, nor run Gnome through startx/.xinitrc, as root. For now, I am abandoning my experiment with Gnome on this machine. I will also

Re: [arch-general] GDM/Lightdm and/or Gnome will not start

2017-11-26 Thread Alan E. Davis via arch-general
To clarify, I have been running the same Arch Linux installation for many months, without a hitch. Until this event. The exact message since that time has been (on a gray screen) "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try

[arch-general] GDM/Lightdm and/or Gnome will not start

2017-11-25 Thread Alan E. Davis via arch-general
I'll try to give some background, because I do not have a really good idea why this is happening. It seemed to start when I tried to install Adobe-Digital-Editions (ADE), so I could read an ebook borrowed from the local public library. I installed wine, and attempted to install ADE. At the end

Re: [arch-general] Samsung NVMe set up

2017-06-21 Thread Alan E. Davis via arch-general
2017/06/20 午前9:16 "Sean Greenslade" <s...@seangreenslade.com>: > > A couple of notes: > > On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:21:33PM -0700, Alan E. Davis via arch-general > wrote: > > Hello everyone: > > > > I built a new machine with a Sa

[arch-general] Samsung NVMe set up

2017-06-18 Thread Alan E. Davis via arch-general
Hello everyone: I built a new machine with a Samsung SSD 960 EVO NVMe Samsung